Who is this Chuck Gallagher guy?
Dear Friend,
I am often asked, why is a guy from Massachusetts so interested in the M.P.D.C, First , I am not and have never been a Police Officer with the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police. Until I began collecting I had no connection at all with M.P.D.C. However, I am a 34 year veteran Police Officer in Massachusetts with a strong interest in the history of the M.P.D.C. Some might ask why so I will try to quickly explain. I am drawn to American history and Police history. I began collecting police memorabilia back on the late 1980’s when my career began. I decided to focus on the M.P.D.C. as it is our countries capital city, then after reading of Private Parker and the Lincoln assassination I was locked in.. At first it was just the memorabilia but as I read more and got to know more officers active and retired from the M.P.D.C. I focused more on the history. Although I am still a collector of ANY history with the M.P.D.C. I am very much into the history, as you can see. So now after 33+ years as a police officer I have great friends from the M.P.D.C., a great collection and a huge web site. Please feel free to drop me a line I do the best I can on the site. With young kids life is busy now but I am trying my best, life throws obstacles at us endlessly I am doing my best to get around them.
This site is a never ending project, several pages are started but not worked on, they will be.
–Chuck Gallagher.
This site is now managed and operated by MPDC-History.com.
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Welcome to 2019's "Room #1861"
In the past few years of my life has changed drastically, from dealing with covid wit cancer, regardless I have not been able to provide as much attention to this web site as I would like to. I intend on getting back on track wit upgrading the pages here.
As a proud collector of M. P. D. C. history I have had to slow down inmy collecting. Having couple of young children will do that to you. I still collect whatever I can afford to, my focus is on M. P. D. patches. I am always trying to find ways to display more and more of my collection, but as you can see by te photos it is getting tougher, but I will always find a way.
Please keep me in ind when new patches come out or if you should wish to part with any piece of M. P. D. C. history. I take my collection very seriously and enjoy it a great deal.
Be Safe,
Chuck Gallagher.
My collecting has been put on a slow burn for now. I am trying to focus on framing a lot of my collection in place of collecting.
This is proving to be costly because it is being professionally framed not frames from Wal-Mart. However if I want my collection to be top notch with the respect it deserves I am going to have to do my best not to do it half-ass.
How it began THE OLD HOUSE IN
R.I.Pre - 2013
Some of my M.P.D.C. coins
On the left is a Police Call Box from the city of Washington D.C. This box is made of cast iron and was removed from the street's of D.C. under the watchful eye of the retired M.P.D. Officer that I received it from. He told me he had it in his basement for many years and decided to part with it. On the right is that very same Police Call Box after getting it professionally restored. I waited to get an actual D.C. Call Box before investing the money is getting it restored, it was worth the wait. Next I would like to get a pedestal from D.C. to place it on.
WHO DOES MY FRAMING?
I have well over 50 pieces of M.P.D.C. history that I have had framed. Items that stretch from buttons to original photographs from the 1800’s.
When I first started to frame my collection up I went to a local frame shop, WRONG ! I was later directed to Ara Anjoorian who works out of Saugus Ma.
Ara does mainly sports memorabilia, television memorabilia and law enforcement memorabilia. He also does frame work for the Mass.
State Police Museum and WILL MAIL HIS WORK.
I highly recommend him he can get very busy you will have to ask about the turnover, (however he is also great with emergency pieces).
I like to use plastic frames because they are lighter. I think Ara can frame almost ANYTHING…. Below is a variety of his work..
This is a small part of my own M.P.D.C. collection that Ara has framed for me.
Some books related to the D.C. Metropolitan Police
Some photos of my trips to Washington D.C. over the years. from the late 80's up through 2018. I'm sure there will be more down the road.
- All
- 2018
- 2015
- 2001
- Pre 1996
